We started out the day today with our appointment at the US Consulate in Guangzhou. This is the appointment that was made weeks ago to apply for Esme's Visa to travel to the United States. Only 24 families a day are able to apply. After returning to the hotel we grabbed lunch an headed to the hotel playground. After about 20 min of running around the kids were so hot and sweaty they asked to go back to the room. Not long after we returned to the room it started to pour rain with lots of thunder and lightening - really our first rain storm while in china except for a brief shower on our first day in Beijing. In the early evening we took a cab back to Shamian Island where we took a boat down the Pearl River - in the thunder and lightening. We had a wonderful dinner and entertainment despite the "colorful" weather. We had taken the dinner cruise boat 8 years ago and really wanted to do it again while in Guangzhou. The rain slowed enough to allow us to venture out onto the deck of the boat to take some photos and video and to see the beautiful city line and lights from the river. The kids enjoyed themselves and Esme like her first taste of strawberry ice cream!
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